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Cambridge remembers

07 Mar 2014

The first of a series of Cambridge events commemorating the centenary of the First World War takes place this Saturday 8 March, bringing together the...

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Gassed by John Singer Sargent

The war that changed everything and nothing: a series of public talks

21 Jan 2014

To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the acclaimed historian and author Margaret MacMillan will give a series of public...

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Screenshot from Attack Of The Zeppelins, which airs on Monday

Attack of the Zeppelins

23 Aug 2013

An investigation into how the Zeppelins worked, and how they were defeated, led by Cambridge engineer Hugh Hunt, forms the subject of a Channel 4...

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Left: Klee's Angelus Novus. Right: Kiefer's Sprache der Vogel. Winter argues that the progression from one image to the other represents a process of gradual "effacement" in art depicting war.

The carriers of memory

06 Mar 2012

Almost 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, public opinion about war in many of the countries that fought appears to have shifted completely...

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A miniature showing a bishop joining the hands of a couple, from the section of the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX concerning marriage, in a copy produced in Venice around 1475.

University Library’s greatest treasures on show

18 Jan 2012

An unpublished Rupert Brooke poem will sit alongside some of Cambridge University Library’s greatest treasures when a free exhibition of highlights...

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Verdun Memorial.

Do Memorials Matter?

21 Oct 2011

For the Festival of Ideas, Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose, a researcher on the CRIC research project, will discuss the unexpected impact and diverse use of...

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A letter written by Geoffrey Claye

"The food is splendid under the circumstances": letters from the First World War

06 Sep 2011

Correspondence from young men caught up in the ravages of the First World War will be on display to the public for the first time at Christ's College...

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